Senior Backend Engineer Golang

Vio.com believes travel is the one thing that opens minds to new ideas, cultures, and ways of thinking.

With a team of +150 FTEs, bootstrapped and profitable and growing +80% a year, we are one of Europe’s most successful startups these days - yet we are only getting started.

We offer access to ‘better deals’ for Millions of customers worldwide, adding spice and competition to a niche that has seen limited innovation for years.

The company is evolving quickly to position itself among the global leaders in the travel industry and we are looking for a Senior+ Backend Engineer to join our Meta Integrations team and help us to create and improve tools that allow us to find the best matched deal for the every specific customer request.

PLEASE NOTE: we are also hiring Staff level engineers, so please see our careers site for both Job Descriptions.

We use a modern stack consisting of Go, TypeScript, AWS (ElasticCache, StepFunctions, EC2, S3, etc), Algolia, Snowflake, Terraform, and more. We work close to the end customers, build tools for their needs, develop search algorithms and hotel search orders. Hence, anything that you will develop and ship on production will have almost immediate effect on our users and on our business performance. We work in a flexible, results-oriented, data-driven and customer-centric team structure, focusing on shipping value in a collaborative fashion, with hopefully just the right amount of bureaucracy.

What you will do:

• Reporting to the Engineering Manager of the squad, you will work in a team to solve challenging problems, and build products to help bring our travellers the best deals available in the market.
• Help to improve our infrastructure and scale it to support our growth in a cost-effective way.
• You will report to the Engineering Manager of the squad

Who you are:

• An exceptional , highly experienced backend developer with a strong and proven grasp of Golang.
• Experience with Rust, Python or Ruby is a plus
• You also have experience with distributed systems, AWS, Terraform, and CI/CD tools.
• You treat documentation as a first-class citizen.

See our careers site for more information on who we are and what we offer : ww.vio.com/careers

We place huge importance on rewarding our employees for the value they generate by giving Stock Appreciation Rights to all employees - and with the growth of our company this year alone , it's a super exciting time to join us!!

We encourage people from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, and abilities to apply. If this job description resonates with you, we want to hear from you!